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are very beautiful, and if you plant with it the yellow and white 

 Jasmine and some free-growing Koses, you can soon cover a wall 

 or building and make it look well at all times of the year. 



For covering summer-houses and verandahs, forming bowers, 

 and the like, many Creepers may be used, such as Ivies of sorts, 

 Clematis, common Hop, single and double flowering Brambles, 

 Ampelopsis, and free-growing Eoses, double and single. These, 

 with many others, are of rapid growth, besides being alike sweet 

 and beautiful, and if allowed to ramble in a natural way, with 

 Sweet Honeysuckle entwining, you will possess a summer-house 

 or bower that will tempt many a one to enter. 



As regards soil and situation, nearly all the plants I have 

 mentioned will thrive and flower in almost any garden. 



There are many Creepers of a more succulent nature that are 

 specially suitable for rockwork, &c, but these must form the 

 subject of another paper, for even in the time I have already 

 occupied I fear I have been able to do but scant justice to the 

 beautiful class of plants of which I was asked to treat. 



The Eev. W. Wiles remarked that he had recently had 

 some little practical experience with some of the plants men- 

 tioned by Mr. Leach in his most interesting and suggestive 

 paper, as also with some others which possibly Mr. Leach even 

 may have regarded as being only doubtfully hardy. Mr. Wilks 

 having in 1890 put up an open verandah round the south and 

 west sides of his house, planted it in the spring of 1891 with 

 the plants mentioned in the following list, the effects of the 

 winter of 1891-2 (when the thermometer more than once fell 

 as low as 8°) being also noted : — 



Discussion. 



Plant 



Effect of Winter, &c. 



Magnolia Halleana . 

 Passiflora cserulea . 

 Grevillea sulphurea . 

 Poinciana Gillesii . 

 Akebia quinata 

 Desfontainea spinosa 

 Clematis crispa 

 Solanum jasminoicles 

 Ozothamnus rosmarinifoli 

 Mandevillea suaveolens 

 Clianthus puniceus . 

 Lardidzabala biternata 

 Eosa gigantea . 



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. No apparent injury ; growth very slow. 

 . Points of shoots killed ; breaking strongly. 

 . No apparent injury; very sickly [since dead]. 

 . Killed back to old wood ; breaking. 

 . Uninjured ; evergreen ; vigorous. 

 . Uninjured ; very little growth [since dead]. 

 . Uninjured; vigorous. 

 . Points killed ; breaking very strongly. 



. Killed. 



. Killed back ; breaking strongly. 



. Killed. 



. Killed. 



. Very hard hit, but living as yet. 



